Repair kit.



J. J. DOIDGE.

REPAIR KIT. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3, 1611.

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Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

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J. J. DOIDGE.

REPAIR KIT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3, 1911.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PEYERS CO.,PHOTO-7H1,WASHINGTON, Dv C J. J. DDIDGE.

REPAIR KIT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.3,1911.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

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s'ra'rus ranntr OFFICE.

JOHN J. DOIDGE, OF SOUTH FRAMINGHAM. MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE R. H.

LONG MACHINERY COMPANY, OF SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, A CCR- POR-ATION OF CONNECTICUT.

REPAIR KIT.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914:,

Application filed August 3, 1911. Serial N 0. 642,095.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. Demon, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at South Framingham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Repair Kits, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in what, in the shoemakers trade, are known as repair kits, that is, machines used in re pairing boots and shoes, and resides in the means employed for-uniting the several elements of such a kit through the medium of a single framework, or, in other words,

mounting such elements upon one frame; in certain peculiar features of the driving mechanism; and in other novel featuresall as hereinafter set forth.

The objects of my invention are, first, to produce a repair kit in the form of a simple, compact, and unitary structure or machine, thereby reducing the cost as compared to a kit which comprises two or more separate and distinct sections or independent machines, and at the same time furnishing a more practicable, efficient, and convenient equipment for doing the work for which such a kit is designed; second, to provide means for driving all revoluble parts of the machine from a single main shaft, and for controlling the driving mechanism to the best advantage, and, third, to provide a ma chine that can be easily and quickly assembled and set up ready for use.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

I attain these objects by the means and mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a kit which embodies a practical form of my invention, the more or less complicated mechanism of the stitcher head being omitted in this and the next view; Fig. 2, a rear elevation of said kit, the stitcher column being partially broken away and the adjacent terminal of one of the tie rods being broken off; Fig. 3, a top plan and partial section of the lower part of said kit, showing the main driving shaft and the driving members and clutch devices mounted thereon and intimately associated therewith, and, Fig. 1,

a front elevation of one of the c1utch-operating levers.

Similar figures refer to similar parts machine and. parallel with each other, and

are secured to the column 1 and the uprights 2 by means of the bolts 4. This frame is convenient to ship, can be readily put together, and possesses ample strength and durability for the purpose for which it is intended.

Journaled in three bearings 5 is main drive-shaft 6. Each bearing 5 is mounted between the forking parts of a yokeor post 7 on horizontal centering screws 8 tapped into said parts or branches of such post.

Each post 7 is setinto a vertical opening in a cross-piece 9 with which each of the members 1 and 2 is provided near the base,

and there held by means of a bolt 10-see Fig. 2. The column 1 is cut out at 11 to ac commodate the adjacent end of the bearing 5 which is mounted in said column. The shaft 6 may be driven by means of a pulley 12 secured thereon outside of the enter up right 2 and belted to a counter-shaft (not shown), or by means of a pulley 13 secured thereon between the uprights 2 and belted to a motor (not shown).

As viewed from the front of the machine and commencing at the left-hand end, the following additional members are mounted on the shaft Ga tight friction disk 14, a loose pulley 15 which is hollow to fit over said disk, a tight friction disk 16, a loose pulley 17 which, like said pulley 15, is hollow to fit over said disk 16, a loose pulley 18, a tight friction disk 19, and a tight pulley 20, said first-mentioned disk and pulley being between the left-hand or outer upright 2 and the driving pulley 13, and the other members being between'the right-hand or inner upright 2 and the column 1. Each of the three friction disks is fiat, and the inner face of each of the pulleys 15 and 17 is likewise fiat and adapted to be brought into engagement with the adjacent disk, whereby motion is imparted from disk to pulley. The pulley 18 has a flat exterior face for frictional engagement with the disk 19 for the same purpose as in the other cases, such face being the right-hand side of said pulley. Extending from the righthand side of each of the pulleys 15 and 17 and from the left-hand side of the pulley 18 is a hub 21 having an annular groove 22 therein.

Loosely mounted transversely of the machine in bearing are three rods 24; which are angular in cross-section, such rods being below the shaft 6 and adjacent to the hubs 21. The bearings 23 are sleeved to the bottom rods 3 and secured thereto by means of bolts 25. Each rod 24. carries in the center a yoke 26, the upper forked part of which enters the groove 22 in the hub 21 above. On the front terminals of the rods 24 which are associated with the pulleys 15 and 17 are operating levers 27-27, and on the corresponding terminal of the remaining rod 24: is an operating lever 28 designed to be depressed with the foot. Each lever 27 slants upwardly and to the left, While the lever 28 extends downwardly and to the right.

Upon depressing either lever 27, the pulley (15 or 17 controlled thereby is actuated to the left into frictional engagement with its disk (1 1 or 16), through the medium of the rod 24, upon which such lever is mounted, the yoke 26 on such rod, and the hub 21. engaged by such yoke, and such pulley set in motion rotatively; and upon depressing the pedally-operated lever 28, the pulley 18 is actuated to the right into frictional engagement with the disk 19, through the medium of the intervening parts as before, and said pulley 18 is set in motion rotatively, it being assumed in. every instance that the shaft 6 is revolving with the friction disks. As soon as the lever 28 is released the pulley 18 moves away from the disk 19 and ceases to revolve, for reasons which will subsequently appear, but the levers 27 are shifted by hand to throw out the other clutches or disengage the pulleys 15 and 17 from the disks 1% and 16, when said last-mentioned pulleys are engaged with said last-mentioned disks, and special means for locking said levers 27 are provided, as will next be explained.

The levers 27 extend in front of the uprights 2, and advantage is taken of this condition to provide simple but effectual locking means therefor. To this end each lever 27 has two narrow slots 29 cut downwardly from its upper edge, and a thin lock-plate 30 is provided, which is adapted to fit into either of such slots and project rearwardly mto contiguity with one or the other side of the adjacent upright 2, according to the position of said lever and the slot into which said lock-plate is inserted, such plate preferably being attached to the lever with a short length of chain 31 to prevent the plate from being entirely separated from the lever. The slots 29 are so located in each lever 27 that the clutch controlled by the lever is held out of engagement when the associated lock-plate 30 is in the right-hand or lower slot 29 and against the right-hand side of the adjacent upright 2, as is the case with the clutch for the pulley 15 as here illustrated, and is held in engagement when the associated lock-plate 30 is in the lefthand or upper slot 29 and against the lefthand side ofthe adjacent upright 2, as is the case with the clutch for the pulley 17 as here illustrated. It is clear, therefore, that, by removing the lock-plates 30 from one pair of slots 29, changing the positions of the lovers 27, and inserting said lockplates in the other slots 29, the clutches can be operated and secured either in or out of engagement as desired.

On the front edges of the uprights 2 are eight inwardlyextending lugs 32 and the same number of centering screws 33 for two pairs of bearings 34. Journaled in the upper pair of bearings 34: is a horizontal .c

shaft 35, and ournaled in the lower pair of bearings 34: is a horizontal shaft 36.

A pulley 37 is secured on the left-hand terminal of the shaft 35, in line with the pulley 15, and a belt 38 connects said pulleys and thus drives said shaft from the shaft 6 when said pulley 15 is in engagement with the disk 14. There is a pulley 39 secured to the shaft 35 at the right-hand terminal of the same. The shaft 35 also carries two felt-covered rolls 40 and two felt-covered wheels 11 for sand-paper, the two former being in the center and the two latter ad jacent to the pulleys 37 and 39. respectively. These felt-covered rolls and wheels and other members not specifically described herein are of usual and well-known con struction and are for the customary purposes in machines of this type.

The shaft 36 extends beyond the uprights 2 in both directions, and secured on the in ner protruding terminal of said shaft is a pulley 12 which is in line with the pulley 17 and connected therewith by a belt 43. The belt 43 drives the pulley -12 and the shaft 36 from the shaft 6 when the pulley 17 is in engagement with the disk 16. The shaft 36 carries, besides the pulley l2 and in the following order from right to left, a cloth wheel 4-1, a brush wheel 45, a second cloth wheel 14:, a second brush wheel 4:5, a felt roll #16, and an angular felt roll 47, the latter being on the outer protruding terminal of the shaft. Y I

A blower 18 is supported by two legs 49 which are mounted on and secured to the lower rods 3 by means of two clamps 50 and bolts 51. I ally from one side of the blower %8 to afford bearings forthe axial support of a pulley 53 which is in line with the pulley 3S) and driven from the latter by a belt 54:. Thus the blower 48 is driven from the shaft 35, which is a desirable feature. because it is in connection with the abrading rolls and wheels on said shaft that said blower is used. Two pipes 55 and 56 open into the blower, the former leading to said blower from a casing or hood 57 which partially incloses the. rolls wand the wheels ii, and the latter being provided to carry off the dust drawn by said blower from said hood through said pipe The hood 57 is mounted on the upper rod 3 and secured thereon and thereto by two clamps 08 and a suitable number of bolts 59. Said hood is open in front to present the abrading members partially inclosed thereby for use, but is so designed that it receives the particles rubbed off of and by said members when in active operation. The upper part of the hood is hinged at (SO-60 to the other part so that it can be thrown over backward to afford access to the parts of the aforesaid abrading members that are normally inclosed by said hood. I

Journaled in suitable bearings 61-61 at the top of the column 1 is a horizontal shaft 62 for the stitcher-head mechanism (not shown), and secured on the inner terminal of this shaft, over the pulley 18, is a pulley 63. A crossed belt 64: connects the pulleys 18 and 63. It is thus seen that the aforesaid stitcher-head mechanism is driven from the shaft 6 when the lever 28 is depressed to throw the pulley 18 into engagement with the friction disk 19. The pulleys 18 and 63 are so arranged relatively that the tension of the belt 64 causes the pulley 18 to move away from the disk 19 upon the release of the lever 28.

A bobbin-winding shaft 65 is journaled in a bracket 66 directly supported by a table 67 which in turn is directly supported by the column 1,and said shaft is driven from the pulley 20 by means of a belt 68 and a pulley 69 secured on said shaft. At 70 a shelf is represented, the same being supported on posts 71-71 which rise from the tops of the uprights 2.

The several operative parts of this machine function in practically the same way as do similar parts when separate and incorporated in individual machines, wherefore no explanation need be given here of the operations of the same, beyond what has already been set forth in connection with the description of the construction of the machine and its members.

The construction and arrangement of A. bracket 52 projects laterparts herein shown and described may be modified or changed to some extent without departing from the nature of my invention.

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y 1. The combination, in a repair kit, with a frame comprising uprights and a plurality of tie rods uniting said uprights at different elevations, of abrading members and actuating means therefor supported by said uprights, a blower mounted on the lower tie rods, a hood, for said abrading members, mounted on the upper tie rod and in communication with said blower, a main drive shaft journaled in said frame, and

means to transmit motion from said maln shaft to said actuating means and blower.

2. The combination, ma repair kit, wlth the frame of the machine, such frame consisting in part of a pair of tle rods below and a single tie rod above, of revoluble abrading members supported by said frame, a blower and a hood for said abrading members, such blower being mounted on the under pair of tie rods and such hood on the upper tie rod, a movable top section on said hood, and a pipe leading from said hood to said blower.

The combination, in a repair kit, with a frame comprising a stitcher column and uprights spaced apart and provided with bearings, and a plurality of tie rods uniting said column and uprights, of shafts journaled in certain of said column and upright bearings, a main drive shaft journaled in others of said column and upright bearings, driving pulleys mounted on said main shaft, means to transmit motion from said driving pulleys to said first-mentioned shafts, and means mounted on said tie rods and said main shaft to couple said driving.

pulleys to and uncouple them from said main shaft.

4:. The combination, in a repair kit, with a frame comprising a stitcher column and uprights spaced apart and provided with bearings, and a plurality of tie rods uniting said column and uprights, of shafts journaled in certain of said upright bearings, a shaft journaled in certain of said column bearings, a main drive shaft journaled in others of said column and upright bearings, driving pulleys mounted on said main shaft, means to transmit motion from said driving pulleys to said shafts mounted in said column and upright bearings, manually-operated clutch mechanism, mounted on said tie rods and said mainshaft, for the driving pulleys for the shafts journaled in the upright bearings, and pedally-operated clutch mechanism, also mounted on said rods and said main shaft, for the driving pulley for the shaft journaled in the column bearings.

5. The combination, in a repair kit, with a frame comprising a stitcher column and uprights spaced apart and provided With bearings, and a plurality of tie rods uniting said column and uprights, of shafts journaled in certain of said upright bearings, a shaft journaled in certain of said column bearings, a main drive shaft journaled in others of said column and upright bearin s, driving pulleys, one for each of the shafts journaled in the upright bearings and one for the shaft ournaled in the column bearings, loose on said main shaft, means to transmit motion from said driving pulleys to said shafts, friction disks, one for each of said driving pulleys, secured to said main shaft, and a yoke in engagement With each of said pulleys and mounted to rock on said tie rods.

6. The combination, in a repair kit, with a frame comprising uprights provided with bearings, and a plurality of tie rods uniting said uprights, of a shaft ournaled in certain of said bearings, a main drive shaft journaled in others of said bearings, a driving pulley mounted on said main shaft, means to transmit motion from said driving pulley to said first-mentioned shaft, manually-operated clutch mechanism, mounted on said tie rods and said main shaft, for said driving pulley, such mechanism including an operating lever, and means to lock said lever in either of tWo positions.

7. The combination, in a repair kit, With a frame comprising uprights provided With bearings, and a plurality of tie rods uniting said uprights, of a shaft journaled in certain of said bearings, a main drive shaft journaled in others of said bearings, a driving pulley mounted on said main shaft, means to transmit motion from said driving pulley to said first-mentioned shaft, and manually operated clutch mechanism, mounted on said tie rods and said main shaft, for said driving pulley, such mechanism including a notched lever located adjacent to one of said uprights, and a lockplate adapted to be inserted in either notch in said lever, the arrangement of parts he mg such that, When said lock-plate is in one notch, it bears against one side of the upright which is in operative relation to the lever and plate, and, When in the other notch, said plate bears against the other side of said upright.

f JOHN J. DOIDGE.

\Vitnesses:

ALLEN WVEBSTER, ALICE H; ,AKESON.

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